North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why is RFC1918 space in public DNS evil?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Petri Helenius wrote: > > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > I've been directed to put all of the internal hosts and such into the public > > DNS zone for a client. My typical policy is to have a subdomain of the zone > > served internally, and leave only the publically-reachable hosts in the > > public zone. But this client, having a large number of hosts on RFC1918 > > space and a VPN for external people to get to it, is pushing against this > > > > > In many scenarios the VPN'd hosts will ask for the names from the public > DNS anyway, so I feel your client is right and it would be better for > you to go with their wishes. Putting all other issues aside, I believe you are right. Still, if VPN is the problem than it is solvable. These machines can be configured with a DNS server that knows where to go. > > Pete > >
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